ray-b/helper.py

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stringo = """
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First, the empirical resemblance between brains and neural nets is no
guarantee that the latter are inherently superior to other, less neurologically realistic models of cognition. For it is the nature of the
appropriate criterion for realism that is in question here: should it be
neurobiological? Or psychological? Churchland cannot simply assume
that the two necessarily overlap.
Second, in the absence of any adequate understanding of the precise
nature of the correlation between psychological function and neural
structure, whatever putative resemblance might obtain between neural
architecture and network architecture sheds no light whatsoever on
the relation between the latter and the abstract functional architecture
of cognition. Where network architecture is concerned, although some
degree of biological plausibility is desirable, empirical data alone are not
sufficient when it comes to identifying the salient functional characteristics of cognition.10
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We will not pursue this issue further here. But we must now consider
a still more damaging objection which is frequently raised against EM:
that its very formulation is fundamentally incoherent.
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"""
print(
stringo.replace('\n', ' ')
)